Kerry: The UN can’t do anything, so we’ll go it alone

posted at 2:01 pm on August 30, 2013 by Ed Morrissey

Old and busted, John Kerry edition: Protecting America against terrorism requires us to pass a “global test” to prove that the threat really exists:

No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.

But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you’re doing what you’re doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.

So now that we know what we know, the question we must all be asking is: What will we do? Let me emphasize, President Obama, we in the United States, we believe in the United Nations. And we have great respect for the brave inspectors who endured regime gunfire and obstructions to their investigation.

But as Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, has said again and again, the U.N. investigation will not affirm who used these chemical weapons. That is not the mandate of the U.N. investigation. They will only affirm whether such weapons were used. By the definition of their own mandate, the U.N. can’t tell us anything that we haven’t shared with you this afternoon or that we don’t already know.

And because of the guaranteed Russian obstructionism of any action through the U.N. Security Council, the U.N. cannot galvanize the world to act as it should. So let me be clear. We will continue talking to the Congress, talking to our allies, and most importantly, talking to the American people.

President Obama will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines, based on our values and our interests.

Golly, that sounds a lot like … what George W. Bush said in 2002-3, too. And when Bush said it, he put together a coalition comprised of dozens of nations for the invasion of Iraq, including large numbers of British troops and no small amount from other European nations, even with Russia, China, and France balking. Barack Obama can’t even get the British to come along on long-range air strikes, and the only other partner we seem to have now is France. And unlike Barack Obama and Kerry, Bush did go to the UN to at least force a vote on ending Saddam Hussein’s depredations, which included using chemical weapons to massacre his own people.

As it happens, I agree with John Kerry, and have for a very long time. While the UN Security Council is a useful platform for multilateral diplomacy, it’s not a global government, nor should we treat it as such. The US should always act in its own interests, and do its best to get our allies on board for that action. The UN General Assembly is just plain useless. Glad to see the nation’s leading liberals (and internationalists) finally acknowledging that fact — along with the other fact implicitly acknowledged in this speech, which is that the 2009 “reset” with Russia was an embarrassing farce and that the issues with Russia wasn’t the fault of the Bush administration.

Otherwise, Kerry delivered a very forceful speech on behalf of intervention in Syria. Why didn’t Barack Obama make this speech? Why doesn’t the President make this case himself to the American people, and especially to Congress? Since this entire exercise seems designed to rescue his own credibility, it’s more than just a little strange to have Kerry out disdaining the global test he once espoused while Obama sits quietly in the White House.

– recalled the ambassador to Syria
– got a 41 countries gang on board for Iraq, via UN and the approval of congress, with Hillary on board in the senate, Kerry too, the buffoon

obama:

– sends ambassador back to Syria
– Hillary, his SoS, says that “Asaad is our friend”
– derides Asaad shortly after
– UN ambassador, communist Samantha Power, is in her native Ireland on vacation, when her Syria peeve is to be discussed; rest of UN are also on vacation
– UN is clueless on who used the chemical weapons
– obama doesn’t care who used them, even though he doesn’t know who did
– congress is ignored
– congress is derelict in enabling obama, with all in the senate, except Inohofe, for the fiasco, whatever it ends up being, not being
– Pelosi went to make nice with Asaad, against the Bush admin’s wishes. Now she is the ‘hawk’ against Asaad, the harlot and scumhag.
– British parliament sends obama and Cmeron to Hell, elegantly
– the Nobel recipient is now Cheney on steroids, heh
– the leftists against war are all hypocrites, yes you, the slave of HA too
– the clock with Russia is spinning, and in the reverse direction
– Putin has Snowden and laughs his head off at his good fortune in oaf obama
– the Chinese are furious that Sisi overturned Morsi, with whom they’d signed an 11 super-agreements deal – Morsi visited Beijing ahead of DC
– the Iranians can’t believe their good fortune
– Israel…either on their own, in it, or ready to take on Iran, with or without the US…if Iran doesn’t behave.
– 100,000 dead, blood on the hands of obama/Hillary, never to forget, and more to flow, lots more

Even though the oafish narcissistic CiC intentionally diminished the US, and this is all in sight, the result of it, I’m incredibly schadenfreudig at it all.

It is marvelous to witness obama and the world, the US too, to get what they cheered for.

Kerry says ‘no doubt’ Syrian President Assad used chemical weapons…bet it is seared into his memory like that Nixon-ordered Christmas incursion into Cambodia over a month before Nixon was sworn in as president.

The cognitive disconnect here is seismic, off the charts. It can’t even be called hypocrisy anymore — there isn’t anything within the scope of ordinary hypocrisy that can cover the hideous incontinent beast, the immoral minotaur, of Obama’s two-faced audacity. Any leftist who claimed George Bush was a cowboy and who shows up to defend this sh*t needs to be hooted out of the building.

Even most libs don’t have the stones to back Obama on this. I’ll say this much for Dubya. He’s 100 times the man I am. I heard his remarks today and if I were in his shoes, I wouldn’t have been anywhere near as gracious given the crap spewed from these same people for 7 years who are now egging Obama on in his desire to strike Syria.

There’s been a lot of talk going around for at least a couple of years that the elite would get us into a war with Syria to start WWIII to initiate the new world order. I’ve been ridiculing it all along, but you know, here we are about to go headlong into that very scenario. Hmmm…

Lemme get this straight…We go into Syria as allies of AQ (Who attacked us on 9/11 and have fought us in Iraq) while we continue to drone them in other countries all because the Muslim Brotherhood is supplying the intel?

We assess the Syrian opposition does not have the capability to fabricate all of the videos, physical symptoms verified by medical personnel and NGOs, and other information associated with this chemical attack.

Then why did they fabricate so many? It just seems exceedingly odd to fake the aftermath of a chemical-weapons attack when there was, in fact, a chemical-weapons attack.

They’re obviously pretty sure there was one though.

Regardless, there’s no “good guys” in this war. On who’s behalf are we to be fighting?

Why didn’t Barack Obama make this speech? Why doesn’t the President make this case himself to the American people, and especially to Congress? Since this entire exercise seems designed to rescue his own credibility, it’s more than just a little strange to have Kerry out disdaining the global test he once espoused while Obama sits quietly in the White House.

The “Limbaugh Theorem” in action. He has to be seen as an outsider advocating for change in his own administration. It’s increasingly obvious from looking at the polls that war with Syria is extremely unpopular, so he will distance himself from it as much as possible.

NONE of the “evidence” or intel cited by Kerry was from American sources.

None of it.

Listen carefully to Kerry’s words…they convey meaning.

His accent was on the dead children…capture the heartstrings of the audience.

He accented the horror of chemical weapons…make the audience so horrified as to only be able to react viscerally.

Then Kerry says “intercepts”…from Mossad.

Video tapes…from videographers in Syria…not American controlled vetted assets…but Syrians who may have a dog in this fight.

And “witness accounts”…not of anyone from ASssad’s command or even Assad himself ordering the attack…but witnesses to aftermath of the attack…again…pathos…not ethos.

We. Are. Gong. To. War. on. a. Lie.

But the folks are cool with this because Assad isn’t a nice person.

Well,if Assad goes down, badly…the new kids on the block in Damascus…they are going to be far far far worse than the Moslem Brotherhood thugs who just got chased out of Egypt. AQ-Levant and their allies…real terrorists who enjoy murdering people…they enjoy it as a sport.

Thank you, Obama voters.

Now, I am going to take a short break and break a few things around here (home) to channel the rage that is welling up inside me…

This is all so crazy making… let me put on my 3xl tin foil conspiracy hat. What if the progs, and I’m not talking about the smartest-man-in-the-room-above-the-fray-light-bringing-community-aggitator-I’m-lucky-if-I-can-tie-my-own-shoes-pull-up-my-big-boy-training-pants-decider-in-chief. What if this was a twofer? They get to put the Manchurian candidate in the WH, and any policy they have wet their pants about they try to enact. If they get opposition they get to claim “Racism” and at the same time the party of Jim Crow gets to make the first white/African-American president look like a total dofus. This makes it that no other plantation dweller will try for the office of president for the next 70 years. Does anyone else get the feeling that our president is nothing more than The Mandarin, from the last “Ironman” movie?

Greg Gutfeld said it best on The Five last night. Why is it ok to kill thousands with machetes but chemical weapons crosses a line, requiring intervention?
They are using the same exact excuse Bush used to get us into Iraq after Sadaam Hussein used chemical weapons on his people. Crickets from Code Pink and the anti-war libs.

or reminiscent of Bush, ‘trigger-happy cowboy style’, maybe :)…karma ‘s a beaoch, Schade is right, as surreal as all this is, it is also -and I never thought I’d say this – somewhat gratifying :)…sad on many levels I suppose, but can’t help it…

I’m sort of the opinion (shared by Beck and others) that the Archduke Ferdinand in this clusterfluke was Mohamed Bouazizi, who was the Tunisian street vendor whose self-immolation kicked off the ‘Arab Spring.’

Since he wasn’t an archduke or other assassinated leader, few noticed, but the dominoes have fallen in a similar fashion.

I think it’s rather obvious. If the whole thing blows up in our face, IT’S JOHN KERRY’S FAULT!

GarandFan on August 30, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Though his finger prints will be all over this. Especially if this does start the next world war in the middle east. It is pretty sad when Israel is working directly with the Egyptian Military, the Saudis and others to deal with the aftermath of this president’s decisions. They have all realized that we aren’t going to be there. I know the Saudis would love to see Assad fall because of the Suni, Shia, Bathist thing, but they don’t want this blowing up in their backyard anymore than the rest of them.

This administration puts the UN as the final authority. That’s why they insist the Russians and Chinese will obstruct efforts.

Well, build a coalition and heck with the UN. [By the way, I don’t support a stupid action as he described. Just ignore the matter and walk away. You haven’t made the case for national interest or imminent threat.]

By the way, Kerry’s speach was moronic. It was stupid that they pushed him out there. I laughed when he kept saying they consulted Congress. Ha. Maybe Reid and Pelosi.

I also laughed when he said they would continue talking to the American people. How about listening, you idiots?

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

The UN has not ever been able to do anything. That is why it should be disbanded and the US should quit paying for it. Kerry is the worst choice for SOS. The guy is totally vapid. This is the worst government leadership evaHHHH in the history of the US.

They were ‘lesser people’, bushmen, you know…oh, yeah, and black…maybe his minority plantation voters ay attention and take note…in contrast, GWB’s relentless campaigns and aid helped curbed the horrendous AIDS-related death rates among those ‘lesser people’…who are the cynical hypocrites again??

They were ‘lesser people’, bushmen, you know…oh, yeah, and black…maybe his minority plantation voters ay attention and take note…in contrast, GWB’s relentless campaigns and aid helped curbed the horrendous AIDS-related death rates among those ‘lesser people’…who are the cynical hypocrites again??

This is BS, they need something to boost their sagging poll numbers and to bolster an embarrassed Obama. Hold on folks we’re going for a bad ride just to shore up Obama’s big ego. These are sad times. And for goodness sake, keep that idiot Kerry out of our faces.